Zak van der Merwe has spent his entire career at AWS building control planes. First for EC2 and now for DSQL. On the surface, the control plane looks quite boring: it records what should exist and reconciles that with what actually does. Nobody leaves school dreaming of building one, but Zak will be the first […]

The question sounds tactical. It is not. Choosing between managed and self-managed Kubernetes shapes your team’s operational burden for years, determines which compliance paths are even available to you, and ultimately decides whether your platform engineers spend their time on product-adjacent work or on etcd certificate rotation. The answer depends less on technical preference than […]

Last week I had the joy of participating in Amazon’s “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” with my 7 year old son. We commuted together into the New York City office, his first real rush hour train ride, and spent the day exploring how Amazon uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to deliver packages to […]

There is no single best DevOps tool. That statement sounds obvious, but the industry’s habit of treating toolchain decisions as popularity contests suggests the lesson hasn’t fully landed. The real question isn’t which tool is best in absolute terms – it’s which problem your pipeline has right now, and which category of tool addresses that […]

The 2026 Forbes AI 50 is framed as a showcase of AI’s breadth. Fifty companies. Domains spanning law, medicine, music, and robotics. A portrait of a maturing industry diversifying beyond its foundational models. The concentration numbers tell a different story. The Capital Concentration That Defines the List OpenAI and Anthropic together have raised $242.6 billion […]

The most expensive mistake a team can make right now is buying the wrong category of AI coding tool, not the wrong brand within a category. This distinction matters more than any feature comparison. The market has split into two camps: assistants and agents. GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, and Gemini Code Assist sit on the assistant […]

1. “How will you prove that the modernized system behaves like the existing production system?” I want an answer that defines functional equivalence in measurable terms and explains how it will be demonstrated across business outputs, numeric precision, interfaces, performance, error handling, and restart behavior. The vendor should describe how it builds the baseline, generates […]

How many hours were wasted by your property management staff last month in simply figuring out what to do next rather than doing it? The truth is that very few managers can answer that question with a concrete number, not because it is not being tracked, but simply because much of it happens in the […]

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in São Paulo with technical builders from across Latin America, brought together for a regional tech event full of deep-dive sessions, hands-on workshops, and conversations with customers and partners. What struck me most wasn’t any single session, it was the energy of a technical community […]

HIPAA compliance in the context of telehealth is not a storage problem. It is a streaming problem, a legal accountability problem, and a shared-responsibility problem, and these three pressures intersect in ways that standard cloud infrastructure is not built to address. Start with what telehealth actually does. Unlike a billing platform or a records database, […]